Greensboro police identify 25-year-old killed in Ross Avenue shooting
Jayden Jaquez Person, 25, died after multiple gunshot wounds at Ross Avenue and Pearson Street, where a second person was also hurt and roads were closed.
Greensboro police are treating the Ross Avenue and Pearson Street shooting as a homicide after 25-year-old Jayden Jaquez Person was found unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds and died at the scene. The shooting drew Greensboro Fire and Guilford County EMS to the intersection, where life-saving efforts were started before Person was pronounced dead.
Officers responded to the scene at about 11:28 a.m. on June 9. Another person was injured in the shooting and was taken to a hospital, widening the impact beyond the fatality at the intersection. The injured person’s condition had not been released, and police had not publicly identified a motive or described a suspect.
The initial call was first handled as an aggravated assault before investigators later confirmed the case was being investigated as a homicide. That change reflected the early uncertainty that often surrounds fast-moving violent incidents, especially when officers, firefighters and medics are still working at the scene and gathering details from witnesses.
The shooting also shut down a stretch of southeast Greensboro traffic. Ross Avenue was closed between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Martin Street, and Pearson Street was closed between Tuscaloosa Street and Ross Avenue. For nearby residents and drivers, the closure marked how far the effects of the gunfire reached beyond the immediate crime scene.
Police have not said whether Person was targeted, and they have not released any suspect description. With that information still missing, the central questions for neighbors around Ross Avenue remain the same: who was involved, what led to the shooting, and whether investigators will be able to explain why two people were struck in a residential corridor that was quickly sealed off by police tape and emergency crews.
Greensboro police maintain a public newsroom and crime-data pages where homicide and other major incident updates are posted, giving the public a place to follow the case as it develops. For now, the killing of Jayden Jaquez Person stands as a violent, unresolved episode in southeast Greensboro, with one man dead, another injured, and the investigation still open.
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